I'm guessing that the shipping manager isn't leaving to "find herself"- that's just a stupid-snarky, clueless take from a boss's perspective: She was a good sales manager, but flaky as hell so one day she decided to just go quit on me and my Very Important Business Because She's Flaky As Hell along with being Disloyal to My Vision. I'm guessing instead that the shipping manager is off to make more money doing something else, and her leaving could have been avoided if the owner of this Very Important Business was willing to part with a little more of her Very Important (and Hard-Earned) Money.
Instead, the owner "needs Indeed." As the commercials insist on bleating, Indeed She Does. But why does she need Indeed NOW, and not, say, two weeks ago when she found out that her shipping manager was quitting to "find herself?" If that shipping manager didn't give any notice, well, sorry, but I'm 99 percent sure that's the Owner's fault- it sure doesn't suggest a strong employer-employee relationship. And if she DID give plenty of notice- again, why hasn't the Owner signed up with Indeed to find a replacement worker drone before the shipping manager was walking off with a cliche'd box of Whatever She Had On Her Desk? You're a terrible businesswoman, Very Important Business Owner.
All of these Indeed commercials are obnoxious, including the ones on the radio (which are 99 percent of the ones I actually hear.) They all involve Full-of-themselves business owners who are overwhelmed with demand who sound frustrated that they can't get their limited staff to do more work so that the owners can keep more money. They all involve these business owners promising more than they can deliver and then worrying about how they are going to fulfill eagerly-accepted contracts after the fact. In other words, they all involve grasping, greedy business people who are humble-bragging about being so successful that they need to make their businesses bigger with more employees. I don't care about any of them and I want them to stop with their faux whining already.
"...before the shipping manager was walking off with a cliche'd box of Whatever She Had On Her Desk"
ReplyDeleteLet's not overlook the fact that she also has a VW Vanagon parked out there...another delicious cliche to reinforce the 'flaky' employee concept and that it totally wasn't bad management that sent her away. It was Jerry Garcia! D'oh!